Pythonic Programming

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This lesson provides you with a deep dive into the various Python language features that you should be exploiting to write clean, concise, readable, and maintainable code - the Pythonic way!

Learning Objectives

  • Understand how to write Pythonic code
  • Understand Python-specific idioms
  • Understand how to work with key collection data structures such as Tuples, Lists, Sets, and Dictionaries
  • Understand how to work with Iterables and List, Set, and Dictionary Comprehensions
  • Understand Lambda Functions, Generator Functions and Expressions and when and how to use them
  • And finally, understand string formatters and formatting

Prerequisites

  • A basic understanding of the Python programming language
  • A basic understanding of software development
  • A basic understanding of the software development life cycle

Intended Audience

  • Software developers interested in learning how to write Python code in a Pythonic way
  • Python junior level developers interested in advancing their Python skills 
  • Anyone with an interest in Python and how to use Python to write concise and elegant scripts for general purpose tasks
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Jeremy is a Content Lead Architect and DevOps SME here at Cloud Academy where he specializes in developing DevOps technical training documentation.

He has a strong background in software engineering, and has been coding with various languages, frameworks, and systems for the past 25+ years. In recent times, Jeremy has been focused on DevOps, Cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP), Security, Kubernetes, and Machine Learning.

Jeremy holds professional certifications for AWS, Azure, GCP, Terraform, Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, CKS).

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